Amy Klobuchar for VP?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

MN isnt a battleground state, it makes more sense for a Bernie Sanders pick.

[pbrower2a]

MN isnt a battleground state, it makes more sense for a Bernie Sanders pick.

Choice, perhaps, for ideological compatibility.

To solidify the vote in IA/MN/WI/ If the Democratic nominee is in trouble in either one of those three states, he is in deep trouble already and likely to lose.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

MN isnt a battleground state, it makes more sense for a Bernie Sanders pick.

Choice, perhaps, for ideological compatibility.

To solidify the vote in IA/MN/WI/ If the Democratic nominee is in trouble in either one of those three states, he is in deep trouble already and likely to lose.

The Democratic map to winning without Iowa is pretty easy actually. See my presidential prediction. But yeah, if WI/MN are going Republican, dems are doomed.

[Bull Moose Base]

Running mates don't really help win states and aren't chosen to do so. It's still hard to guess when it's still unclear who the GOP nominee will be and what the race will look like in 7 months. If Hillary isn't generating enough the expected enthusiasm from women, she'd conceivably be open to a female running mate to kickstart it.

[Maxwell]

Perfectly acceptable, if dreadfully dull.

[Trapsy]

I love Klobuchar but wouldn't really add much to the ticket even though she is very competent at her job.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Hillary is a woman.

Klobuchar is a woman.

Is Hillary going to pick another woman for VP?

No!

Everybody, please, get this idea out of your heads that Hillary is ever going to pick another woman for VP.

Not gonna happen, no way, no how.

Get over it.

I think it would be a gutsy pick.  It would be a way for the Democrats to drive the gender gap through the roof in their favor.

Kloubachar would be my choice for the top job amongst potential Democratic candidates.  She's more substantive than Hillary would be on her best day.

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TOP TIP: Veep choices don't help tickets, although they have been known to hurt them. Nobody has ever changed their vote because one veep candidate represents the state adjacent to them.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

TOP TIP: Veep choices don't help tickets, although they have been known to hurt them. Nobody has ever changed their vote because one veep candidate represents the state adjacent to them.

And that that happens is another thing only Atlas believes.

[Fuzzy Bear]

TOP TIP: Veep choices don't help tickets, although they have been known to hurt them. Nobody has ever changed their vote because one veep candidate represents the state adjacent to them.

This isn't entirely true.  Mondale helped Carter and Bush helped Reagan.  Arguably, Gore helped Clinton win some Southern states he would otherwise have lost.

The Gore case is the one for Kloubachar.  Gore being a fellow Southerner undoubtedly helped Clinton in 1992.  It helped Clinton carry TN, LA, and GA, and just miss in NC and FL.  Had Clinton picked, say, Dick Gephardt, he probably wouldn't have carried any Southern states beside AR and MAYBE LA that year.

The two-female ticket could increase the advantage Democrats have among women without driving down their votes from men.  It's not so much that Kloubachar, personally, would cause this; it's the playing to strength effect.

[Bull Moose Base]

TOP TIP: Veep choices don't help tickets, although they have been known to hurt them. Nobody has ever changed their vote because one veep candidate represents the state adjacent to them.

In this thread, we agree.

[Ogre Mage]

Klobuchar's not as bad of a choice as the Castros.  At least it's not irresponsible.
But there's not much logic to it either.  If Klobuchar was a man she wouldn't even be getting brought up.  Know how I know?  Because her fellow senator from Minnesota is Al Franken, they've both been in the senate the same amount of time, and nobody ever mentions Franken as VP.

Not correct, Klobuchar has been in the Senate 2 years longer.